poor box
alms box
mite box

The font is circa 1500 but was recut in 1851 to the original design, and the old alms box is thought to be 17th century.

An alms box, carved from a single piece of wood, is carved with an inscription and the date 1639.

Cadfael encounters Rafe putting coins in the alms box.

Yet not quite like any he had seen before in the alms boxes.

I was with him when he dropped some coins into our alms box.

An alms box is a strong chest or box often fastened to the wall of a church to receive offerings for the poor.

The church also contains a Victorian wheeled coffin bier, and a wooden alms box.

The electronic alms box is one more way, an up-to-date method, in keeping with the times.

"Some people have accepted it," Father Asenjo said of the new alms box.

The alms box permits donations only and does not issue cash.